Monday, December 12, 2011

This one has been bugging me for months. I actually started it before the Mia Ballistic Green Lantern Sketches but have been working on it only sporadically. It's a long way from finished - and this is one I hope to actually finish - but it is decent enough for a post.
Lady Punisher: Mia Ballistic
Domino: Catherine Pow

Friday, December 2, 2011

Woke up early but was so "brain damaged" from this weeks crisis that I was unable to study. Did this quick sketch instead.
Using a fresh pull of Krita beta 4 from git, Deban GNU/Linux and my old trusty Wacom Intuos II

Supernatural promises a lot and delivers a decent amount of entertainment. Even though the stories are still watchable I really miss the days of Katie Cassidy as Ruby.
Decided to post as a WIP since I have not touched this in a couple of months.

It is one of those stories that are, simultaneously, cool and weird. I've never actually read that many stories of the character, or even watched the movie, but something about her always fascinated me.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Yesterday Tombs send me a couple pics of Amber. I just could not wait to get home so I could do some sketches. This piece is a Work In Progess.. Trusty old Wacom Intuos II and Krita runing Debian GNU/Linux SID.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Since I've negeleted my health situation for quite a while I had to rest for a couple days this weekend. I the downtime, in which I was unable to read much, I've watched quite a bit of North American series.
The last one I've watched was Supernatural which is quite simplistic and unidimensional, but those elements are part of what make the series actually work.

As I was watching the 3rd season I decided to draw Ruby, the Katie Cassidy version. I hope to find the time to make a few sketches of the Genevive version as well as some of Meg, both versions.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Have been watching too much the mentalist lately. Can't take Grace Van Pelt and Teresa Lisbon out of my mind.

This was just a quickie done with krita. Tried to play with the sketch brush to make the lines and kinda liked the results I got. Not the sketch as a whole but some of the lines where surprisingly nice.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

This one has been in my backpack for a few months now. Yesterday I scribbled a few lines during my methodology class as the content is almost the same since my high school years. I did not put much effort in getting it right since it was just an exercise to loosen up my inking as well as making the clock run faster. Shading, especially lighting, is a mess...

Friday, April 29, 2011

Sometimes you find someone that just fills a role perfectly and you just can't see someone else in that role. That's how I feel about these cosplay: she is just perfect as a Green Lantern. Even though she looked great as Lady Punisher, Catwoman, and Kitty Pride, I can't see her in another role. So I did another sketch...

I was never a real fan of cosplay but from the moment I first saw Mia Ballistic dressed up as Green Lantern on Facebook I knew I had to draw her. It was "love at first sight". Everything just worked out perfectly: shapes, colors, poses.... This is just my first try and I hope she can forgive me.

Tonight, just fot the fun of it, I did a quick - less than 20 minutes - sketch of Michael Chiklis as Victor Samuel "Vic" Mackey from the TV Series "The Shield".

I've been wanting to sketch him for quite a while now so I just did it. Unfortunately the image size was so small I could not work on it anymore. Instead of throwing it away I decided to give Inkscape's bitmap tracing capabilities a try. And it saved the sketch, as far as I'm concerned.

I never really understood how Joel Schumacher, who had done some marvelous movies, could do such a dreaded piece as Batman & Robin. I don't mean that it is poor job. It was so wretched that it obviously took a lot of effort to make that especific kind of movie.

How come the guy who made "St. Elmo's Fire", "The Lost Boys", "The Client", "Falling Down", "A Time to Kill", "8mm" and "Flatliners" could do something like "Batman & Robin" escapes my reasoning. Even with the studios forcing a "kid's friendly Batman" I cannot understand how he was able to do a campier version of Batman than the 60 TV series.

I try, really hard, to think of it as some kind of Warholesque apropriation of mas media material and an exposition of how stupid it can be.

The only thing I recall of this movie with a little enthusiasm is Alicia Silverstone taking the Batgirl mantle. The scenes were terrible but the imagery was enough to make me want to draw her quite often.

This is an Work Abandoned [WA], as I did lots of mistakes early on and do not with to redraw the whole thing. I'm just posting it as a reminder to myself to analise the structure and lighting better before shading and doing the textures...

Monday, March 21, 2011

I've been a big fan of Threshold (TV series) for quite a while. I've become quite angry with the fact that there is no DVD set of the show in Brasil. I'd love to watch the extras, especially those parts where they are supposed to be talking about the future of the show, had it not being canceled.

So I present you my first sketch of a Threshold character: Dr. Molly Caffrey.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

I have just finished watching The Dead Zone, the entire TV series, and enjoyed it a lot. Since I was already playing around with my Intuos, 2 and 4, I decided to give it a try with those characters while experimenting with krita, the KDE painting app. I'm still trying to figure ot how to work efficiently with krita since I've been an avid Gimp user for years. It seems to be worth the hassle as krita has its focus on ilustration and painting while Gimp in image retouching. It seems I can do a lot of stuff mixing them up.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Still trying to make peace with my intuos 4. I do not know why but my trusty old intuos 2 seems a lot more confortable and responds a lot better then her younger sister. I did this sketch just for the sake of practice.

Monday, February 28, 2011

After years of having bought my first tablet, a Wacom Intuos 2, I'm finally losing he dread and gaining a little confidence, as well as a decent grip, on the damn tool.

This is a roughly done sketch of the sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. Even though my knowledge of his works is quite limited, a fact that I'm plaining to retify soon, I loved everything I read from him as well as a few adaptations of his novels into movies. Just to name a few: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (Blade Runner), Minority Report (Minority Report), Second Variety (Screammers) and The Impostor (The Impostor).

Sunday, February 20, 2011

I've watched "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" about 3-4 times from start to finish and still haven't passed the exitement of watching Lena Headey playing Sarah Connor. She is way different from Linda Hamilton, so a initial disconfort was expected, but I believe that it is exactly why she works so well. Hamilton played Connor as a air head teenager and later as a action lead. Both caracterizations would get tiring after a few episodes. Headey did it differently: as a mother who was more prepared to fight the end of the world than to really grasp the basics of parenting. And all this while still being strong and sexy. You gotta love that.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

I grew tired of that piece I did in 2008 so I decided to make a more recent, and hopefully more polished, self-portrait. It is still a long way from a good self-portrait but at least it does not bother me with all those marker lines. Bush, media ink on A4 layout paper.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

This one has been in the works for a few weeks. I did the last of the hatching during the 1st day of this year over breakfeast and decided to call the quits. I was getting to the point where, even though the piece was far from finished, every line I was making was just screwing up the piece. Maybe some day, and probably that day will never come,I'll continue to work in it ...